Carrie Preston and Muhammad Zaman, Faculty Research Fellows at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future and co-founders of the new University-wide Center on Forced Displacement (CFD), recently participated in a panel discussion on forced displacement. The event, which was hosted by Boston University Global Programs as part of its 2022 International […]
Ateeb Gul, a 2022 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate in Religion at Boston University, recently presented a paper at a symposium at the University of Oslo’s Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. The paper, titled “Child Marriage Legislation in Pakistan: Religious (Counter)Narratives and the Politics of Law,” is the result of Gul’s recent research as […]
Noor Toraif, a 2021 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow and a PhD candidate at BU’s School of Social Work, was recently featured in a BU Today article for her work creating a new free online course for understanding structural racism. Led by Dawn Belkin Martinez, a School of Social Work Clinical Associate Professor and Associate Dean for Equity […]
Jeffrey Geddes, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently presented gave a Distinguished Lecture at the University of Toronto Centre for Global Change Science (CGCS) seminar series. Prof. Geddes’s talk, titled “Contemporary and Future Changes to Biosphere-Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions,” explored the role of the terrestrial […]
John Okechi, a 2020 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellow, recently co-authored a paper exploring the ecological health of Lake Victoria resulting from the rapid growth of cage aquaculture in recent years. About 45 million people depend on Lake Victoria directly and indirectly for their food, economic livelihoods, transportation, and more. To offset the effects of climate […]
The new University-wide Center on Forced Displacement (CFD), founded by Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellows Carrie Preston and Muhammad Zaman, was recently featured in an article in The Brink. CFD fosters interdisciplinary research and engagement on the forced displacement of tens of millions of people due to war, persecution, climate change, and other disasters. “Forcibly […]
On September 28, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted its annual fall reception. At the beginning of the reception, the eight 2022 Graduate Summer Fellows, who represent five different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments, gave a series of lightning talks on the outcomes of their […]
Pablo Suarez, a Visiting Research Fellow at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, recently joined the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), as a visiting researcher and senior policy fellow. In this capacity, Suarez co-designed and facilitated two recent workshops at CSER. The first […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is proud to co-sponsor the International Studies Association’s (ISA) annual Global South Travel Grant. The grant, provided by the Global Health Studies Section of ISA, is also co-sponsored by Brill Publishers and the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. The award will […]
Boston University has awarded the second annual Anthony Janetos Climate Action Prize to Olivia Henning (Environmental Analysis and Policy, CAS ’22) and Lucia Vilallonga (Statistics and Computer Science, CAS ’22) for their research on quantifying BU employee air travel emissions. The Prize, which includes a financial gift to the winners, is awarded annually to the […]